Jolson Quotes

#1. I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story!

Howard Waldrop

#2. I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

Al Jolson

#3. I had a will to win that come from being raised poor.

Sam Huff

#4. A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

Al Jolson

#5. California, here I come, right back where I started from.

Al Jolson

#6. Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

Desi Arnaz

#7. Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.

Henry Blackaby

#8. Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. I don't have a sprinter's body.

Allyson Felix

#10. I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.

Al Jolson

#11. Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

Cecil Beaton

#12. You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

Alison Krauss

#13. I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

Al Jolson

#14. The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Michelle MacLaren

#15. My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.

Peter James

#16. After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Al Jolson

#17. Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#18. Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)

Jen Campbell

#19. False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

William R. Alger

#20. I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.

Gilbert Harding

#21. When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

Jack Benny

#22. Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face ... A good hard day's work.

Lindsay Fox

#23. One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

Abraham Pais

#24. Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium.

C.M. Stunich